We welcome both Full and Associate members into the Societas Magica. Please read the definitions below, evaluate your comfort level with the activities described, and state which membership category you would prefer to belong to.
FULL MEMBERS are those with an interest in the production of professional scholarship, or who teach courses in a university setting, whose research or teaching is connected to magic as described on the main page. "Professional scholarship" is understood as academic prose of a kind and quality likely to be considered for publication in refereed academic forums.
This category might include anyone affiliated with a university as professor, adjunct faculty, lecturer, or graduate student, or anyone affiliated with a recognized organization of independent scholars (such as the NCIS), or any independent scholar who has or may soon have publications in refereed academic forums pertinent to magic as described on the main page.
If you think that you would be interested now or in future in presenting your research at a Societas Magica conference or session, or might consider submitting something for publication in the newsletter or journal, you are welcome to apply for Full membership.
ASSOCIATE MEMBERS are those who are not, or not yet, involved in the production of professional scholarship on magic, nor currently involved in teaching university courses related to magic, but who support the scholarly aims and activities of the Societas Magica and wish to receive its publications.
This category might include writers whose output is directed towards markets other than academic (including novelists, poets, journalists, or those who write for religiously affiliated publications or occultist presses, unless they also write for refereed academic forums on topics pertinent to magic as described on the main page), undergraduates, or those working towards or holding an advanced degree in fields other than the humanities or social sciences or producing their primary scholarly work in areas other than magic (unless they also write for refereed academic forums on topics pertinent to magic as described on the main page).
If you think that you would be interested in attending our conferences and/or receiving our publications, but are not sure if you will want to submit papers or write an articles for these forums, you are welcome to apply for Associate membership.
TRANSITION between Full and Associate membership: Anyone who begins as an Associate member may become a Full member either upon entry into a graduate program in the humanities or social sciences, or upon having an article accepted for publication in an academic forum. We encourage all members to consider contributing to our written forums at any point they feel ready to do so.
PRIVILEGES FOR ALL MEMBERS include: 20% discount on Magic in History series books, subscription to Societas Magica Newsletter, and, if chosen with dues payment, a discounted subscription to the journal Magic, Ritual & Witchcraft. All members are welcome to come to conferences, attend meetings, and support other functions of the Society as their time and abilities allow. All student members may take advantage of the student discount for membership with journal (regardless of whether they enter as Full or Associate members).
Full members may be requested to consider contributing to the Societas Magica mission in a broader range of ways, by refereeing books and articles in their areas for our publications, contributing material to the newsletter and journal, notifying our news letter editors of new research, and supporting our activities in other ways as their time and abilities allow.
The Societas Magica welcomes a wide range of scholars and encourages interdisciplinary research. Although the Society reserves the right to remove from membership by Board vote someone who uses the name of or membership in the organization in ways that re flect badly on the Societas Magica and its goals, we hope that this will not happen, and wish only to encourage original and diverse scholarship in this area.
Please send an email to societas.magica@gmail.com with the following information:
Dues payments also may be made online by those living in the US and abroad. To make a dues payment online via Paypal, please click here, where you will also find further explanation of dues rates.
(New users: Filling out the Paypal application allows you to make dues payments by several means including credit card. If you are filling out Paypal forms for the first time, be sure to type your credit or bank card number into the appropriate field all together, with no spaces between the numbers.)
Current members who need to update their address or other information should send an email to Claire Fanger cfanger@bmts.com. (Address information kept in the Societas Magica da tabase is not normally cross-checked with Paypal information. Do not assume that your address will be updated in the Societas Magica database because you submitted an updated address to Paypal.)
Updated: June 3, 2008